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Vaporware 2009: Inhale the Fail

Take a deep breath and savor the sweet stench of disappointment. It’s time for another installment of Wired.com’s Vaporware Awards. This is the 12th year we’ve offered our annual roundup of the tech industry’s biggest, brashest and most baffling unfulfilled promises. As i...

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Twitter Earns First Profit Selling Search to Google, Microsoft

In characteristic style, for a start-up founded on the idea of brevity, Twitter attained profitability with with two strokes of the pen, inking deals totaling $25 million with Google and Microsoft that allow those companies to display tweets in their search results, according to a Business Week r...

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Conservative Link Shortener GOP.am Aims to Prank the Pranksters

One good link hijack deserves another. Prank URLs blocked by the Republican party's new-media consultancy on GOP.am now lead to "action pages" that support the GOP. Pranksters riddled a new Republican-branded URL-shortening service this week with unwelcome links juxtaposing the GOP bran...

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Epicenter — 3 days ago

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Questia Lightens Researchers’ Loads with iPhone App

Questia, an online library catering to students and researchers, has launched an iPhone app offering access to 76,000 books and 2.7 million periodical articles for a monthly subscription fee. According to the company, research librarians selected each book and periodical in the collection with t...

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Epicenter — 3 days ago

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Google Reportedly in Talks to Buy Yelp

Google is reportedly in talks to buy Yelp, the popular local review, for about $500 million, according to reports from TechCrunch and the New York Times. Founded by two former PayPal employees, Yelp managed to do what numerous review sites, including CitySearch and Yahoo, failed to do: become coo...

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Skype/Kazaa Founders Launch Rdio Streaming App (Beta)

Rdio users can browse their cloud-based music collections by scrolling or tapping through the alphabet on the right. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom think they can succeed where others have failed, in convincing music fans to spend a few dollars each month on an unlimited music subscription ser...

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